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   Dig Deeper (digdeeper@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 17:05:41 JST Dig Deeper
   Polish government is planning a law that would require certain apps coming preinstalled on smartphones - one of which requires doxing data to be given. Bad precedent.
   
   https://www.prawo.pl/samorzad/rzadowe-aplikacje-na-prywatnych-telefonach-ustawa,518355.html
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 21:09:07 JST 寮

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     @digdeeper Solution: trash your phone.
     If you really need one, at the very least get yourself a used Pixel phone and install GrapheneOS.
     Or a PinePhone just to troll AUTHORITAH!!.
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     edshot99 (edshot99@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 16:19:23 JST edshot99

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     edshot99 (edshot99@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 16:26:48 JST edshot99

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     @ryo @digdeeper
     God damn is that bug annoying!
     ...please excuse prior post.
     
     >Pixel phone
     Using a Google phone? C'mon man!
     
     >PinePhone
     Not worth it!
     Phosh drains the battery due to poor programming language choices.
     KDE is more efficient and 'polished', but crashes a lot.
     Ignoring the crashes, Gajim isn't really usable, Dino can't click those gtk dialogs or open files, and Kaidan is one on one only.
     
     So, PinePhone was something I tried that didn't work out so well.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 16:43:27 JST 寮

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     @edshot99 @digdeeper The big irony in the Android space is that Goolag phones are always the easiest to root and degoolag.
     
     FairPhone is probably easier, but hard to find, but has the added benefit of being easily repairable.
     But perhaps it's easier to get one in Europe, considering it's made by a Dutch company?
     
     And then there's OnePlus, but it's made by a Chinese company (and therefore the CCP, because in CHAINA!! every company is a CCP memeber), so.........
     Not saying CHAINA!! bad or anything, I just don't feel like enriching a tyrannical DICKtator with a zero covAIDS policy even further.
     I made an exception with the PinePhone, but that's just a fraction of what you'll be paying for any other phone these days anyway.
     
     As for PinePhone, there's SXMO too that works great, until you use the screen rotate gesture which immediately renders the entire OS broken with the only way to "fix it" being to completely wipe and reflash the OS.
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 16:47:37 JST Udon

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     > PinePhone
     Yes same. One biggest issue is the small battery capacity (even the same for Pinephone Pro). I hoped it would become useful when they released the keyboard case (that can triple the battery capacity), but turns out you can't use the only USB-C port for anything other than charging anymore...
     
     Anyway, the idea of Pinephone is interesting but the implementation is bad. And it looks like pine64 have made some retarded moves and I'm worrying about their future too.
     https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/
     https://drewdevault.com/2022/08/18/PINE64-let-us-down.html
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 16:55:19 JST Udon

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     > PinePhone
     Yes same. One of the biggest issue is the small battery capacity (even the same battery for Pinephone Pro). I hoped it would become useful when they released the keyboard case (that can triple the battery capacity), but turns out you can't use the only USB-C port for anything other than charging anymore...
     
     Anyway, the idea of Pinephone is interesting but the implementation is bad. And it looks like pine64 have made some retarded moves and I'm worrying about their future too.
     https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/
     https://drewdevault.com/2022/08/18/PINE64-let-us-down.html
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 16:59:09 JST 寮

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     @udon @edshot99 @digdeeper I had high hopes for the PinePhone.
     Guess what happened recently?
     Screen just started to "scratch" itself out of nowhere.
     It's planned obsolescense all over again...
     Which is why I went back to degoolagged Pixel 3 just for phone calls, short messages, and 1 overseas bank account who's probably going to ban me really soon anyone once they fiture out I'm using them just as a middleman forgetting fiat into crypto.
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:01:26 JST Udon

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     @ryo @edshot99 @digdeeper
     OnePlus and Samsung are one of the easiest phones you can unlock. If someone is just looking for a smartphone that can be (almost) degoogled, they can look for used phones too (that is supported by any custom ROMs of their choice). Most people don't even know what custom ROM is, so they will think the phone is completely useless and you can buy them with a low price.
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:02:30 JST Udon

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     @ryo @digdeeper @edshot99
     I don't know if ours are the same but I had screen scratches from day 1. It happens whenever the phone wake up from deep sleep but it will gone in about a minute.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:03:16 JST 寮

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     @udon @digdeeper @edshot99 From what I heard is that Samsung is among the hardest of unlock actually.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:05:02 JST 寮

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     @udon @digdeeper @edshot99 I don't mean literally physical scratches.
     I don't know how to explain it, kind of like having grey-ish orange kind of markers all around the edges which makes it impossible to see what the hell is going on while looking at the screen.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:05:41 JST 寮

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     @udon @digdeeper @edshot99 The only way to stop the scratching from going on was to power off the phone, because once I power it back on again, it'll just continue destroying the screen.
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     edshot99 (edshot99@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:18:06 JST edshot99

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     @ryo @digdeeper @udon
     Hmm. I never had hardware problems with PinePhone except the SIM card slot where the pins are easy to snag and bend. Got lucky that it didn't snap.
     
     Easiest phone to unlock would be HTC, but there is a catch.
     You must create a HTC dev account and use their online service to grab the OEM token from you phone to upload it and then receive a unlock key.
     Even with this easy process and HTC kernel source code, there isn't much interest to support custom Android for HTC.
     I don't know if HTC still makes phones still.
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     @ryo @digdeeper @udon
     Old Samsung don't need unlock and can be flashed with heimdall.
     As with new Samsung I don't know. I think it is the same except that your trip the security system so you get a "this phone is no longer secure" warning or something like that.
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:28:22 JST Udon

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     @ryo @digdeeper @edshot99
     How so? You just enable dev mode and use Heimdall, that's it. It's even easier than Oneplus or others since you don't need to connect to the Internet to be allowed to turn on "OEM unlock"
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:29:33 JST Udon

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     @ryo @digdeeper @edshot99
     > It happens whenever the phone wake up from deep sleep but it will gone in about a minute.
     I would be surprised if my Pinephone can "heal" itself physically...
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     Udon (udon@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:30:22 JST Udon

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     @edshot99 @ryo @digdeeper
     > You must create a HTC dev account
     I wouldn't call them "easy to unlock" with this.
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     @udon @digdeeper @ryo
     ...these empty posts shall forever haunt me.
     
     Yes. Samsung and others will be more easier than the HTC.
     But in my case I never used or had Samsung phones which is why, in my experience, HTC was easier and better.
     My fault to fail to mention that.
     
     The only other phones I had pretty much brick itself once it sees any partition tampered with. Phones were LG and Alcatel.
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     edshot99 (edshot99@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 18:10:18 JST edshot99

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     @digdeeper @ryo @udon
     Err, I should mention current day status.
     
     I do have a Samsung phone with Replicant. Replicant is quite easy to install. Easy as in commands only, nothing else.
     Replicant is quite ideal in that it attempts to build on GNU/Linux-Libre machines and to strip all the crap from AOSP such as firmware blobs.
     One fatal flaw is that there is only one person working on the project. Well realistically zero people now. It also lags behind versions and is very slow GPU wise due to missing firmware.
     The GPU is so slow that I rather deal with PinePhone crashing all the time.
     It was planned to use a newer feature in 4.x or 5.x kernel to boost GPU speed, but as I said, no developers working on it.
     
     Then of course my regular phone, PinePhone, and other HTC phone.
     However I am limited to HTC and PinePhone since carriers have started their push forward with 4G/5G/VoLTE so 3G works half the time.
     
     Perhaps I should stop fighting the lost cause battle of phones and chuck then into the ocean...